Critical Content and Skills

Content Area:

Students will know...	Formative Assessment	Students will be able to...	Product Summative Assessment
1. about the lives of individuals impacted by the Holocaust prior to imprisonment within the camps.	Choose an individual: Discuss with peers	1. Explain: Students will be able to exhibit and model an awareness of life before the Holocaust. They will be able to explore and recognize the significance of the changes which occurred.	Brief wiki detailing life before the Holocaust
2. that the individual needs to be considered in addition to the situation.	Blog	2. Interpret: Students will be able to tell the story of an individual impacted by the Holocaust, thus exploring the challenges experienced by the students chosen individual.	Journal of an individual
3. that there are multiple ways of viewing the multiplicity of information regarding the Holocaust.	Draft collage	3. Apply: Students will apply the information they have learned or created about the specific chosen individual, then create a Glogster collage pertaining to the individual.	Glogster collage representing the individual
4. the way outside events played into the war.	Check in observation	4. Perspective: In order to move away from purely the events of those impacted by the Holocaust, I would like students to analyze the events occurring in the war outside of the concentration camps.	Podcast: Discussion of news events related to the Holocaust
5. that real people were horribly impacted by the Holocaust.	Dialogues	5. Empathy: Students will assume the role of and relate to the chosen person by creating an iMovie interview of the individual after the concentration camp.	iMovie interview
6. the general impact of the Holocaust, and the way we continue to reflect upon it in modern history.	Self Assessment	6. Self Knowledge: To reflect upon the information learned throughout the unit, students will blog about their learning experiences.	Blog: "I learned..."

Formative

Q - Quizzes
WS - Work Sample
SA - Self Assessment
P - Prompts
O - Observation
D - Dialogues

Product - Summative

CL- Comic Life
IM - Imovie
B - Blog
PC - Podcast
W - Wikispace
G - Glogster